James, William

"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."

"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

"The art of becoming wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

"The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the Bitch-Goddess success. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease."

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

"Genius . . . means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way." - The Principles of Psychology

"Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor." - The Principles of Psychology

"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience." - The Varieties of Religious Experience